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From: "Dawid Loubser" <dawidl@xxxxxxxxxxx>
To: "Olympus Camera Discussion" <olympus@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Wednesday, May 12, 2010 5:37 AM
Subject: [OM] Incident Light metering
> An incident light meter simply cannot be equalled by any other in-
> camera reflected-light
****SHIT !!!
jh
> metering solution, no matter what it does. This is in terms of
> "accuracy". However, modern
> multi-segment light meters with powerful CPUs and a database of
> reference images, like
> that found in the Nikon F6, are probably best at maximising the
> captured dynamic range,
> especially on slide film.
>
> I never shoot slide film without incident light metering (of course, I
> never shoot slide
> film in anything but non-metered medium format cameras, but you get
> the point). Even when
> you go to extremely low light levels, such as this shot I made (18
> minute exposure at f/32,
> very high contrast captured on a poor-latitude slide film) no in-
> camera meter could ever
> accurately meter it with the same confidence, you'd always have to
> fiddle around with
> multi-spot this, exposure-compensation-that, etc.
>
> http://snipurl.com/w5ux5
>
> I'm not saying it can't be done, I'm just saying that an incident
> meter meters it *exactly*
> for how it should be exposed, no additional brain-power required.
>
> Dawid
>
>
> On 12 May 2010, at 4:38 AM, Joel Wilcox wrote:
>
>> It's a hard subject to meter. An incident light meter would be nice.
>> But if I have an OM-4 in my hands I always think "I don't need no
>> stinking incident light meter."
>
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